Lead Java Developer
Project description
We are DXC Luxoft Financial Services - an award-winning provider of technology solutions, dedicated to the Financial Services sector. Join our international team and become a member of our open minded, progressive and professional team of financial services consultants. In this role you will be working on projects for biggest investment banks across the globe. You will have a chance to grow your technical and soft skills, and build a thorough expertise in the Capital Markets industry. On top of attractive salary and benefits package, we will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career. Team overview: We are building a dedicated engineering squad in Bucharest (4 Java Developers + 4 QA Automation Engineers) to support a large-scale modernization and technical debt reduction program within financial markets IT systems.
Responsibilities
- This initiative focuses on: - Upgrading legacy applications to modern Spring Boot versions (2.x → 3.x) - Decommissioning and replacing Hazelcast across distributed systems - Refactoring applications to align with modern, cloud-ready, stateless architectures - Enhancing integration with event-driven systems using Apache Kafka - Supporting applications connected to Murex batch and real-time processing flows This is a high-impact program in a low-latency financial environment, where system stability, performance, and correctness are critical. We are seeking a Lead Java developer who can design and build with minimum supervision solutions for our team. The person needs to be knowledgeable on modern software development practices including Scrums, be up to date with the latest Java tools and frameworks and be able to work with the existing team to deliver solutions. The ideal candidate will be diligent, tenacious and delivery focused with a track record of building high quality solutions that are resilient and maintainable. Use of cloud technology is increasing, so experience working with AWS would be beneficial. - Design and implement solutions for: - Spring Boot & Hazelcast upgrades (including major version transitions) - Analyze existing distributed system usage (caching, clustering, locking) - Refactor applications toward stateless, scalable microservices - Implement and optimize integrations using Kafka-based event-driven architecture - Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and architecture teams on migration and rollout strategy - Ensure high standards of performance, resilience, and fault tolerance - Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and production support Post-project opportunity: Following successful delivery of this modernization initiative, team members are planned to be reassigned to other strategic programs within the client’s long-term roadmap, offering continued growth and exposure to new initiatives.
SKILLS
Must have
- Technical
- Previous Tech Lead experience in complex international projects
- Strong experience in Java (11–17+)
- Deep knowledge of Spring Boot (microservices, REST APIs, configuration)
- Hands-on experience with Hazelcast or similar distributed caching technologies
- Experience with Apache Kafka
- JMS
- Oracle RDBMS
- Atlassian suite (e.g. JIRA, Stash and Jenkins, GitLab)
- GIT
- Unix/Linux/Windows Architecture & Systems
- Microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Experience with: - Distributed caching patterns - Stateless service design - System integration in complex enterprise environments - Understanding of migration strategies and backward compatibility Development & Delivery
- Git, CI/CD tools (Jenkins or similar)
- Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Linux/Unix environments
Nice to have
Business • Knowledge of capital markets and financial risk management (market and/or credit risk) • Forex Transactions would be an asset Technical • AWS • Cucumber
